Over the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit smaller stars -- from red dwarfs to stars slightly more massive than… [+6014 chars]
The next day, on Saturday, Aug. 13, an asteroid double the size of 2015 FF is expected to make another close approach to Earth. As per JPL, this one, called 2022 OT1, is about 110 feet long, which is… [+279 chars]
Were in the third year of the Suns 11-year solar cycle, and satellites in low Earth orbit are already experiencing the deleterious effects. Scientists are now warning that the worst is yet to come, a… [+3932 chars]
Uninspired by the dull scientific numbering of exoplanets? Well, here's your chance to name an alien world and its host star by connecting them to human cultures. To mark the 10th anniversary of its… [+2249 chars]
NASA's Artemis I Moon mission includes a payload that would conduct a biological experiment beyond the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) for the first time in almost fifty years. Named BioSentinel, the payload i… [+2253 chars]
Figure 1:A type of 2D ice called bilayer hexagonal ice has been observed on corrugated gold surfaces. Seen from above (top), the water molecules align on the gold substrate, with some rows of molecul… [+8861 chars]
Gigantic deserts of almost complete nothingness that make up most of the universe may be causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, new research suggests. That means these vast tracts of noth… [+5094 chars]
Why did humans evolve to talk, while monkeys were left to hoot, squeak and grunt to communicate? The question has long puzzled scientists, who blamed our closest primate cousins’ inability to reprod… [+3101 chars]
ByUniversity of California - San DiegoAugust 12, 2022 An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Tra… [+4756 chars]
On August 12, 1977, NASA entered a new era with the launch of the Enterprise, a space shuttle prototype that never actually reached space. But despite falling short of even cruising altitude in a com… [+10265 chars]
Here the flow of an electrically conductive modified hybrid nanofluid i.e., Al2O3, CuO, Cu nanomaterials, suspended in aqueous (water) ionic solution, which is propelled by the combined effects of el… [+22342 chars]
Sauropods were the largest terrestrial animals that roamed the Earth for more than 100 million years. Among the most iconic groups of dinosaurs, they were initially believed to be semiaquatic animals… [+2758 chars]
